Comments Following Review of Report on the Pacific Southwest Water Plan

Document: Draft No. 5, Nov 14, 1963 (carbon copy), page 13adopted as a premise it is obvious that for many years there will be not only a firm supply of 7,500,000 acre-feet available to the Lower Basin, but also a substantial amount of water in addition, particularly after Upper Basin reservoirs are filled. This filling period should be over by the time the Central Arizona Project becomes operative. The Central Arizona Project constructed to a capacity of 1,200,000 acre-feet, will not, even when combined with the existing projects in Arizona, completely utilize Arizona's entitlement to main stream water out of the first 7,500,000 acre-feet available to the Lower Basin, let alone Arizona's entitlement to share in waters in excess of 7,500,000 acre-feet. It is reasonable and proper that this should be so since there are other needs in Arizona outside of the Central Arizona Project area which should and must be met when and as plans are developed for such utilization. As an illustration, municipal supplies are 13Epson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 24 bit, 3,338,737 byte